Summer 2022 Undergraduate Students at CHESS
Summer Engineering Research for Community College Students (SERCCS) selects 4-5 students from (2-year) community colleges for eight-week internships in accelerator and x-ray sciences research, during which students also attend/lead formal seminars, tour research facilities, and enjoy social and
Welcome Jeney Wierman - New MacCHESS Director
Dear CHESS Community,
New, diverse users get firsthand experience at HEXT workshop
CHESS is a vital resource for educating new and emerging synchrotron scientists. As the only synchrotron located on a university campus, it is CHESS's mission to engage students who will directly benefit from this amazing resource.
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Intermediate Valence State in YbB4 Revealed by Resonant X-ray Emission Spectroscopy
CHEXS users have directly observed an electronic configuration that is quantum-mechanically mixed between valence states in materials.
Dynamics of Recrystallized Grains in a Hot-Compressed Mg-Zn-Ca Alloy
Recent research performed at CHESS presents new insights into the microstructural evolution which occurs during annealing of Mg alloys using in-situ X-ray diffraction.
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Computing, Machine Learning, and Data-Intensive Science at Synchrotron Facilities
An interdisciplinary, interactive workshop on the challenges and opportunities in scientific computing, machine learning, and other aspects of data-intensive science at synchrotron facilities.
2022 CHESS User Meeting
The CHESS Users’ Meeting will be held in-person at the Physical Sciences Building at Cornell, with the option to view the meeting online via Zoom.
Characterization of 128 x 128 MM-PAD-2.1 ASIC: a Fast Framing Hard X-ray Detector with High Dynamic Range
Hybrid pixel array detectors (PADs) have proven to be powerful, versatile area detectors for X-ray science.
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CHESS Celebrates 75 years of Synchrotron Light
Researchers at CHESS examine proteins that reveal new ways to fight cancer, battery cells that enable a charge far beyond current capabilities, and structural materials that enable space travel to improve with lightweight, yet more structurally sound components. Today’s high energy X-rays provide scientific advances and innovation far beyond what Röntgen could have ever imagined.